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be laced much quicker thnn by onyother knowndevice, as there is no danger or prf;

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Letters Pate-nt No. 77,029, dated April 21, 1868.

IMPROVBD SHOE-LAGER.

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L ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: l

Be it known that I, D. A. GILBERT,- of Morrisville, in theoounty o`t have invented eertainnew and useful Improvements in Shoe-Lacers; n isn full, clear, and exnct description thereof, reference being had to the aecompnnyingdrawings, and the letters of reference mnrkedthereon.

In the annexed drawings making a. part of this specitication, is cut by u die from sheet metal, and bent in the fornishou'n in the drawings.

A iepresents my improved shoe-lacerff which The laver is riveted to :t shoe, D, by meiins of n smell pinor rivet, c, pas

.L'amoil'le, 'and in the State of Vermont, nd do hereby declare that the following sing thiough a suitable hole in` the ear of 'said ioeer, and through the materiel of the shoe, and e smell piste, B, placed on tho inside oi the shoe dixeetly opposite or beneath the em of the ineen' A..

t wiliibe seen' that by means of thelncer A, having Aits eye or hook mode in the ioi'm shown, a shoe :hay

onbility' of the string slipping out onbecoming detached therefrom, whilefit receives oi' catches the string as `readily ns nn' oidiuai-y hook, and the seid iacer being .riveted byfmenns of a headed pin, oi' pin passing through a, plate, B, and thenheaded at both ends, Wiiibe held more securely, :ind the mntcrini will be less 'lin-ble to ri'p or teer. than bythe usuel mode'of festening.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I The iecer A as an article'of manufacture, when mode witshown and described, and used as and for the purpose herein specified.

Initesti-mony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set niy hand, this claim as new-,ond desire to secure by LettensPatent, h. the end of its hook turned under, in the form 25th any of geepyugry, isos.. t D. .feI'LBERT.' Witnesses: A

J. P. CLEMENT, DANIEL GILBERT; 

